original description
Sacco, F. (1897). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXII. Gasteropoda (fine)(Pleurotomariidae, Scissurellidae, Haliotidea, Fissurellidae, Tecturidae, Patellidae, Oocorythidae, Cyclophoridae, Cyclostomidae, Aciculidae, Truncatellidae; Acteonidae, Tornatinidae, Scaphandridae, Bullidae, Cylicnidae [sic], Philinidae, Umbrellidae). - Pulmonata Testacellidae, Limacidae, Vitrinidae, Helicidae, Pupidae, Stenogyridae, Succineidae; Auriculidae; Lymnaeidae, Physidae; Siphonariidae). Amphineura (Chitonidae). - Scaphopoda (Dentaliidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 148 pp., 10 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46677
page(s): 61, pl. 5, fig. 2 [details]
additional source
Kadolsky D.; Binder H.; Neubauer T.A. (2016). Taxonomic review of the fossil land gastropod species hitherto placed in the genus <i>Galactochilus</i> Sandberger 1875, with the description of a new genus (Gastropoda: Helicoidea). <em>Archiv für Molluskenkunde.</em> 145(2): 151-188.
page(s): 176 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Schlickum, W.R.; Strauch, F. (1973). Die neogene Gastropoden-Gattung <em>Mesodontopsis</em> Pilsbry 1895. <em>Archiv für Molluskenkunde.</em> 103(4/6): 153-174.
page(s): 155-156 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Introduced as replacement name for Helix brocchii Sandberger, 1875, non Helix brocchi [sic] Calcara, 1842 (deemed to be identical according to ICZN Art. 58.14). Schlickum & Strauch (1973) considered the species synonymous with Mesodontopsis chaixii. See also Kadolsky et al. (2016) for discussion. [details]